Thiruvaimozi- 1.9 9 to 1.9.11

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1.9.9.

 

kamalkkaNNan en kaNNiluLLaan

kaaNbavan avan kaNgaLaale

amalangaLaaga vizikkum

aimbulanum avan moorthi

kamalatthyan nambithannai

kaNNudhalaadOnum thOttri

amaladdheyvatthOdu ulagam

aakki en nettriyil uLaanE

 

The

lotus-eyed Lord, who has created Brahma, Siva and all other devas and the worlds,

has come to my eyes and hence I am able

to see Him and the world with Him in my eyes and all the senses have become

His, being free from all sinful propensities. After this He has risen to my forehead.

 

 

kamalakkaNNan- The lotus eyed Lord

 

thOttri- who has created

 

kamalatthayan

nambi- Brahma who is on lotus from

His navel

 

kaNNudhalaan- Siva , who has an eye in his forehead

 

aakki-also created

 

amaladdheyvatthOdu- the devas who were without blemish

 

ulagam- the worlds as well

 

en

kaNNinuLLaan- who has come into my

eyes so that

 

kaaNban- I am able to see the world through Him, meaning

that the Azvar sees everything as the Lord

 

vizikkum- He looks at me

 

avan

kaNgaLaalE- with His eyes

 

aimbulanum - so that my senses

 

avan

moorthi- have become His

 

amalangal

aaga- hence become pure

 

en

nettriyuLaan- He has risen now to

my forehead.

 

The

Lord who created Brahma and Siva and the

devas and the worlds which denote that

He is the creator and annihilator.Since He has come into the eyes of the Azvar

He has become the power behind the eye and the Azvar sees everything as the

Lord now. The eye stands for all the senses and hence the Lord had now become

the master of all senses and the defects of the senses inducing sinful propensities

due to past karma are all removed since the Lord has appropriated the senses. In

this verse Azvar says that He has now come to the forehead. This does not mean

the the Lord has lefet each place of his body to go to another place but means that He was pervading the whloe body

slowly like the water that covers the man who immerses himself in it.

 

 

1.9.10

nettriyuL ninRennai aaLum

niRaimalarppaadhangaL soodi

kattraithuzaaimudikkOla

kaNNapiraanai tthozuvaar

ottraippiRaiyaNindhaanum

naanmuganum indhiranum

mattraiyamamrarum ellaam

vandhenadhu ucchiyuLaane

 

Siva,Brahma,Indra

and other devas worship the Lord by wearing His lotus feet on their heads,the

feet which are decorated by dense tulasi

garlands, and which are on my forehead and now He has come to the top of my

head.

 

ottraippiRai

aNindhaanum- Siva, who wears a

single digit of the moon on his head

 

naanmuganum- Brahma

 

indhiranum- Indra

 

mattrai

amararum ellaam- and all the devas

 

thozuvaar- worship

 

kaNNapiraanai- the Lord

 

nettriyuL

ninRu- who is standing on my

forehead

 

ennaiyaaLum -to grace me,

 

soodi- by wearing on their heads

 

niRaimalarppaadhangaL- the feet of the Lord like lotuses

 

vandhen- that Lord has come now

 

ucchiyuLaanE- on my head.

 

The

Lord now goes to the head thus pervading the Azvar fully. His feet are covered

with dense Tulasi garlands and they are worn by Siva, Brahma and the devas on

their heads.The Azvar says that the feet which stood on his head to bless him

are on the head of all devas including Brahma and Siva. Now the pervasion is

complete and the Lord has risen to the head of the Azvar an who is plunged

wholly in the divein experience.

 

 

1.9.11

 

ucchiyuLLE niRkum

dhevadhevaRkku kaNNapiraaRkku

icchayuL sella uNartthi vaN

kurugoor sadagopan

ichonna aayiratthuL ivaiyumOr

oatthempraaRkku

nicchalum viNNappam seyyaneeL

kazal Senni porumE

 

The

feet of the Lord which extends towards the devotees will be esatblished on the

head of those who daily pray through these ten verses among the thousand which

are told by Kurugur Sadagopan, (Nammazvar) about the Lord who was firmly

standing on his head, to narrate the actions of the Lord that would please Him.

 

neeL

kazal- the feet of the Lord whch

extends towards the devotees

 

Senni

pOgume- will be placed on the head

 

nicchalum

viNNappam- of those who daily pray

 

empiraarkku- to the Lord

 

sonna

aayiratthuL ivaiyoru patthum- by

saying these ten verses among the thousand

 

vaN

thirukkurugur sadagopan- told by

Kurugur Sadagopan (Naamazavar)

 

ichaiuL

sella uNartthi- to narrate the

actions of the Lord that would please Him,

 

dhevadhveRku

kaNNapiraaRku- the Lord who is the

Laod of devas

 

ucchi

uLLE niRkum – who stands on my

head .

 

This

verse is the phalasruthi of the ten verses describing the Lord occupying the

whole of Azvar slowly. Azvar says that those who say these ten verses also will

experience the feet of the Lord on their head because the feet seek the

devotees by themselves and comes and place themselves on their heads. The words

`ucchiyile niRkum' denote that

once the Lord had come to the head there is no place higher to go and hence He

is stationed there firmly.